smudgen.1
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ 1. figurative.1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xiv. 182 The smudge which Tess had set upon that nobility.
a. A dirty mark or stain, esp. such as is caused by a smear or by trying to rub out a previous mark.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smear
blur1601
smear1611
daub1731
smudgea1774
clart1808
slake1818
smooch1825
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 257 A long sooty smudge upon the lining of my coach.
1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xviii. 64 And you think I didn't see the smudges of court plaster about her face?
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xii. 95 I rubbed the circle and the pentacle away,..leaving but an undistinguishable smudge behind.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time vi. 48 Like a smudge from a lead pencil.
b. transferred. A blurred indistinct mass or area.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness > thing
shadow1594
nebulosity1813
haze1820
shape1834
smudge1871
indistinct1880
1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France 3 Mixing earth and sky in one settled ‘smudge’.
1885 Manch. Examiner 11 June 57 Wales and Scotland [in common maps] are simply smudges of mountains.
2.
a. A smeary condition, substance, etc.; the result of smearing or dirtying.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition
smear1600
smudge1830
smudginess1864
smeariness1866
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. vi. 90 The master..finds one day that his sextant case is all of a smudge.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 260 The oil, the grease and consequent ‘smudge’ incur a good portion of uncleanness.
1864 Soc. Sci. Rev. 165 The countryman who..declared that it [a picture] was nothing but ‘smudge’.
b. technical. The scum of paint.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > the scum of paint
smudge1823
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 411 The scum is called smudge, and is used for outside work.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 207/1 Smudge, which consists of the refuse from paint and varnish pots, and therefore contains a number of fatty, oily substances.
3. Very small coal; fine slack, coal dust.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust
slackc1440
smith coal1466
smithy coal1482
coal dusta1529
panwood1531
smith's coal1578
kirving1599
culm1603
coom1611
small coal1643
smit1670
smut1686
slag1695
duff1724
duff coal1724
small1780
gum1790
stinking coal1803
cobbles1811
nubbling1825
stinkers1841
rubble1844
pea1855
nuts1857
nut coal1861
slap1865
burgee1867
smudge1883
waste1883
treble1901
coal smut1910
gumming1938
nutty slack1953
1883 in W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 228.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 7/2 Small coal, such as smudge and slack, are plentiful.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
smudge-faced adj.
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1891 H. Herman His Angel v. 96 A grimy, smudge-faced, half-ragged urchin.
smudge pan n.
ΚΠ
1798 J. Constable Let. 2 Dec. (1964) II. 16 I should be glad of the smudge pan as soon as convenient.
smudge-pot n.
ΚΠ
1883 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 455 Huge poles..smeared over by a property-man with a smudge-pot.
C2.
smudge cell n. Medicine a degenerate leucocyte in a blood film.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > blood corpuscle or plate > [noun] > white cells or corpuscles
white corpuscle1823
white cell1852
leucocyte1870
phagocyte1884
macrophage1887
microphage1887
lymphocyte1890
megakaryocyte1890
hyaline cell1894
macrophagocyte1896
microphagocyte1896
scavenger-cell1899
splenocyte1900
polymorph1902
granulocyte1906
lymphoblast1909
agranulocyte1913
monocyte1913
stab1929
hyaline leucocyte1931
smudge cell1937
heterophile1938
siderophage1941
1935 L. E. H. Whitby & C. J. C. Britton Disorders of Blood iv. 89 Degenerate lymphocytes usually appear as smudges and are known as ‘smear cells’.]
1937 R. R. Kracke & H. E. Garver Dis. Blood vi. 84 It has been stated that smudge forms are degenerating lymphocytes and that basket cells..are degenerating granulocytes... It seems more probable that the smudge cell is an early stage and the basket cell a later stage of the same process.
1971 W. M. Dougherty Introd. Hematol. iii. 70/1 Most often the bare nuclei that we call smudge cells or basket cells are in fact the bare nuclei of the lymphocytes.
smudge-coal n. blind-coal, stone-coal ( Imperial Dict. 1882).
Draft additions 1993
a. A photograph, esp. one taken by a street or press photographer; (see also quot. a1931).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject
high key1849
carte1861
carte-de-visite1861
wedding group1861
vignette1862
studio portrait1869
press photograph1873
cameo-type1874
war picture1883
mug1887
panel1888
snapshot1890
visite1891
fuzz-type1893
stickyback1903
action photograph1904
action picture1904
scenic1913
still1916
passport photo1919
mosaic1920
press photo1923
oblique1925
action shot1927
passport photograph1927
profile shot1928
smudgea1931
glossy1931
photomontage1931
photomural1931
head shot1936
pin-up1943
mug shot1950
wedding photograph1956
wedding photo1966
full-frontal1970
photofit1970
split beaver1972
upskirt1994
selfie2002
a1931 W. Kernôt Unpubl. Gloss. Amer. Cant in Partridge Dict. Underworld (1949) 647/1 Smudge [Photograph of a fingerprint].
1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack iv. 40 It was not until I'd taken over twenty smudges that the driver thought it time to tell me that the whole bunch of 'em was a lot of barmies.
b. = smudger n. Additions b. slang.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman viii. 65 The ‘smudge's’ normal procedure is to step in front of people and ‘click’ his camera.
1986 Melody Maker 19 Apr. 6/1 Madonna Ciccone-Penn took time out from her full-time hobby of punching out publicists and running over smudges.
1990 Q Mar. 28/3 Cole is on his way to a photo session with acclaimed French smudge Claude Gassian.
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smudgen.2
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ 1. A suffocating smoke; spec. a smoke made to repel mosquitoes, etc. Now North American.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > dense or suffocating
smotherc1175
smoulderc1325
smore1393
pother1627
stife1636
smudge1767
smoor1894
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling mosquitoes > preparations or heaps for burning or producing smoke > smoke
smudge1887
1767 Mason in Corresp. w. Gray (1853) 401 I will sacrifice the first stanza on your critical altar, and let it consume either in flame or smudge as it choose.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Smudge, a suffocating smoke.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 125 No smoke or smudge.
1887 E. B. Custer Tenting on Plains ii. 77 Eliza..brought old kettles with raw cotton into our room, from which proceeded such smudges and such odors as would soon have wilted a Northern mosquito.
1896 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 63 A small fire of green wood was making a smoke—or ‘smudge’, to use the Floridan vernacular.
1939 F. P. Grove Two Generations v. 32 If there had been a moon, a person coming over the hills would have seen that smudge as a perfectly level sheet closing the bowl like a lid.
1971 ‘G. Black’ Time for Pirates i. 15 The air reeked from..mosquito-repellent smudge.
2.
a. A heap of combustibles ignited and emitting dense smoke, usually made with the object of repelling mosquitoes, etc. Chiefly North American.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling mosquitoes > preparations or heaps for burning or producing smoke
smoke1689
smudge1842
smudge fire1846
coil1963
mosquito coil1963
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > smouldering fire > for making smoke
smudge1842
smudge fire1846
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xviii. 183 I have had a ‘smudge’ made in a chafing-dish at my bed-side.
1880 M. Fitzgibbon Trip to Manitoba x. 114 A smudge (a fire of chips mulched with wet hay or green twigs when well started, to create smoke).
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 346 We had three or four smudges made, the smoke from which nearly blinded us.
1936 B. Brooker Think of Earth iii. vii. 278 ‘We'll make a smudge,’ said Bundy, and..began gathering twigs and handfuls of scorched grass.
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 503/2 Laddash greeted her, squatting in the smoke of a smudge against the mosquitoes.
1959 E. Collier Three against Wilderness iii. 33 She was scurrying around..gathering punky chunks of wood for the smudge.
b. attributive, as smudge bonfire, smudge fire, smudge-smoke, etc.; designating containers for the smouldering fire, as smudge box, smudge can, smudge kettle, smudge pot, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling mosquitoes > preparations or heaps for burning or producing smoke
smoke1689
smudge1842
smudge fire1846
coil1963
mosquito coil1963
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > smouldering fire > for making smoke
smudge1842
smudge fire1846
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling mosquitoes > preparations or heaps for burning or producing smoke > containers for
smudge box1882
smudge kettle1902
smudge can1954
smudge pot1965
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > emitting smoke > tin of substances producing smoke
smudge pot1903
smoke pot1950
1846 Knickerbocker 28 241 You make a large ‘smudge’ fire outside that the smoke may drive these [insects] away.
1860 Harper's Mag. Oct. 584/1 Through the smudge-smoke issuing from the half-breeds' quarters we could catch glimpses of dark eyes.
1882 G. C. Eggleston Wreck of ‘Red Bird’ 55 ‘What is a “smudge box”, Ned?’ ‘Simply a shallow box of earth set upon a post, to build a smudge upon.’
1882 Harper's Mag. Oct. 724 The most effectual of these is to kindle smudge fires about the vineyard.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xx. 148 Thorpe's old tin pail was pressed into service as a smudge-kettle.
1903 S. E. White Forest ix. 112 Your smudge-pan may drive away the mosquitoes.
1903 Outing 43 166/1 Other settlers keep the smudge-pot going and live in smoke.
1909 H. Bindloss Lorimer of Northwest 3 The dun smoke of a smudge-fire shows that Harry is in prairie fashion protecting our stock.
1923 F. Waldo Down Mackenzie 116 One sees the horses after a trip..released for rest, huddling to windward of smudge bonfires, or in default of these standing in a forlorn group together to get in one another's shade.
1926 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 769 The old Smudge Pot could only hold a small quantity of oil [and made much smoke].
1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 31 Professional beekeepers use a small smoke bellows, but the best substitute is to light a smudge fire and let the smoke drift past the entrance to the hive.
1954 A. M. Bezanson Sodbusters invade Peace 134 A smudge can was my constant companion in or in front of the house.
1965 H. Johnson Bay of Pigs iii. i. 106 While one of the men put up the signs, another lighted the smudge pots.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 18 If he kept a smudge-fire going..he could survive.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 36 The mosquitoes were terrible..and people stayed close to smudge pots when the sun went down.
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smudgen.3
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ A slight sign or indication (of laughter, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
specec1330
taste1390
lisounc1400
savourc1400
smatcha1500
smell?a1505
spice1531
smack1539
shadow1586
surmise1586
relish1590
tang1593
touch1597
stain1609
tincture1612
dasha1616
soula1616
twanga1640
whiff1644
haut-goût1650
casta1661
stricturea1672
tinge1736
tinct1752
vestige1756
smattering1764
soupçon1766
smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
lineament1811
trait1815
tint1817
trace1827
skiff1839
spicing1844
smudgea1871
ghost1887
a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 126 A bright dimpling chuckle sometimes (smudge of laughter, the Scotch call it..).
1898 G. A. Smith Life H. Drummond (1899) i. 3 There was never a glimpse of a phylactery nor a smudge of ‘unction’.
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† smudgeadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Smart, trim.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim > specifically of men
smug1551
smudge1596
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O4 v A smudge peice of a handsome fellow it hath beene in his dayes, but now he is olde and past his best.
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smudgev.1
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ 1. figurative.1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife v. ii The beauty of the mind, Which neither time can alter..nor the black hand of envy Smudge and disgrace.1896 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 29 Feb. 5/1 Halifax Chronicle smudged [= charged with libel].
a. transitive. To soil, stain, blacken, smirch; to mark with dirty stains or smears.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
c1430 Freemasonry (1860) 744 Kepe thyn hondes, fayr and wel, From fowle smogynge of thy towel.
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Atratus, blacked or smudged [1565 Cooper smoudged].
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. D j b The Sheetes smudged so durtily.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. Epil. The God whose face is Smoog'd with smoke and fiar.
1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dial. iv, in Wks. (1874) VI. 157 To be smudg'd and grim'd with soot.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Smudged, begrimed.
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 195 His coat..smudged for several inches up the sleeve of the left arm with the wipings of his pens.
1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. i. 30 With face and hands smudged and stained by explosive powders and virulent acids.
b. To rub out or in, to paint or lay on, etc., in a smearing or daubing manner.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > rub out or in
smear1838
smudge1864
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > apply crudely
daub1630
smudge1901
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Smudge, to smear, obliterate.
1878 G. N. Bankes About some Fellows 26 [He] made a considerably worse mess trying to smudge it out.
1899 J. G. Millais Life & Lett. Sir J. E. Millais II. xvii. 213 The critics insisting..that it was a stuffed bird, just smudged into the picture.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser. 42 Everybody, even the youngest boy, imagines he can ‘smudge’ paint.
c. absol. To make or leave a stain.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > become soiled [verb (intransitive)] > make or leave a stain
smudge1902
1902 Longman's Mag. May 4 The soil here, coloured by old Devon Sandstone, smudges red, not brown.
2. To bungle, make a mess of (something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle
botch1530
bungle1530
mumble1588
muddle1605
mash1642
bumble?1719
to fall through ——1726
fuck1776
blunder1805
to make a mull of1821
bitch1823
mess1823
to make a mess of1834
smudge1864
to muck up1875
boss1887
to make balls of1889
duff1890
foozle1892
bollocks1901
fluff1902
to make a muck of1903
bobble1908
to ball up1911
jazz1914
boob1915
to make a hash of1920
muff1922
flub1924
to make a hat of1925
to ass up1932
louse1934
screw1938
blow1943
to foul up1943
eff1945
balls1947
to make a hames of1947
to arse up1951
to fuck up1967
dork1969
sheg1981
bodge1984
1864 G. J. Whyte-Melville Brookes of Bridlemere xviii He smudged it awfully, but we got over without a fall!
Derivatives
ˈsmudging adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct
dimc1000
blinda1398
undistingued1398
obscure?a1450
undistinct1495
shadowed1588
undistinguishable1600
shady1626
blear1637
filmed1637
indistinguishable1642
crepusculous1646
adumbrated1650
oblite1650
faint1660
monogrammous1678
blurred1701
faintish1712
wispya1717
adumbrant1727
muzzy1744
indistinct1764
fuzzy1778
misty1797
shadowy1797
undistinguished1814
woolly1815
vague1822
furzy1825
mystified1833
slurred1843
feeble1860
smudginga1861
filmy1864
smudgy1865
blurry1884
slurry1937
a1861 E. B. Browning Par. Theocritus in Poet. Wks. (1904) 584 One shaggy eyebrow draws its smudging road Straight through my ample front, from ear to ear.
ˈsmudging n.3 in quot. figurative
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun]
staining1530
stain1563
besmearing1574
attainture1608
soilurea1616
smutting1621
sullying1629
macula1649
black wash1856
smirching1862
blear1868
smudging1873
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smearing
besmearing1574
slurring1660
smudging1873
1873 J. Brown Let. 27 Dec. (1912) 288 I always feel insulted by these smudgings and besmearings.
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smudgev.2
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ Now dialect and North American.
1. transitive.† a. To cure (herring) by smoking. Obsolete. rare.Halliwell's ‘Smudge, to stifle. northern’ is not otherwise certified.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > smoke
reekOE
smudge1599
fume1602
bloat1611
smoke-dry1704
cure1725
smoke1757
baconize1799
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 27 In the craft of catching or taking it, and smudging it Marchant and chapmanable as it should be, it sets a worke thousands.
b. North American. To make a smoky fire in (a tent, etc.); to fill with smoke from a smudge. Also, to cause (a fire) to smoke; to drive (mosquitoes, etc.) away by smoke. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1860 Harper's Mag. Aug. 296/2 The blankets were spread in the tents, the tents smudged or mosquito nets hung.
1866 Harper's Mag. Jan. 265/2 The others sat by the fire and ‘smudged’ it.
1880 D. Currie Lett. of Rusticus 56/1 Before going to bed we smudged the tent, which made the mosquitoes so drunk that they did not molest us again before morning.
1891 in Cent. Dict.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 21/1 I piled on some brush and tried to smudge 'em away.
c. Among North American Indians, to smoke (pottery) in order to give it a black shiny finish. See also smudging n.2 at Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > decorate china [verb (transitive)] > types of decoration
slip1686
smudge1936
1936 K. M. Chapman Pottery of Santo Domingo Pueblo 7 The ware turns light red in firing, though this is often purposely smudged to a more or less dense black after firing is complete.
2. intransitive. To smoulder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)] > burn without flame
smoulder1529
smother1600
smore1651
smudge1825
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Smudge, to burn without a flame, or any appearance of fire, except smoke.
1892 Whitby Gaz. 13 May 2 The bed and bed-clothes which burned and smudged for a considerable time before the fire was extinguished.
Derivatives
ˈsmudging n.2 (spec. in sense 1c).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > glazing
smudging1846
overglazing1947
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > other types of decoration
smudging1846
rice grain1876
photoceramic1892
pastillage1901
fingertipping1935
trailing1940
lithophane1947
1846 E. W. Farnham Life in Prairie Land II. x. 314 This process is more briefly designated by its technical name of ‘smudging’.
1955 Bushnell & Digby Anc. Amer. Pottery iv. 32 In these examples the colour is due rather to smudging with carbon in the fire than to chemical reaction.
1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 15 Smudging is achieved by smothering the fire with fine damp manure.
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† smudgev.3
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make smart or trim; to deck or trick up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > improve in appearance
cheer1560
tickle1567
smudge1589
perk1590
smug1598
pamper1611
smart1780
smarten1788
primp1801
to fig up1872
dude1899
posh1919
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]
highta1200
atiffe?c1225
tiff?c1225
wyndre?a1366
kembc1386
picka1393
prunec1395
tifta1400
varnishc1405
finea1425
tifflea1425
quaint1484
embuda1529
trick?1532
trick1545
dill1548
tricka1555
prink1573
smug1588
sponge1588
smudge1589
perk1590
primpc1590
sponge1592
tricksy1598
prime1616
sprug1622
briska1625
to sleek upa1625
trickify1678
prim1688
titivate1705
dandify1823
beflounce1824
befop1866
spry1878
lustrify1886
dude1899
doll1916
tart1938
youthify1945
pansy1946
spiv1947
dolly1958
zhuzh1970
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L2v Doron smudgde himselfe vp, and iumpde a marriage with..Carmela.
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (Grosart) II. 279 White wine..is good for nothing, but to wash sores in, and smudge vp withered beauty with.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O3 He..stood..by the glasse,..currying & smudging and pranking himselfe vnmeasurably.
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smudgev.4
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/, Scottish English /smʌdʒ/, /smudʒ/ Scottish and northern dialect.
intransitive. To laugh quietly or to oneself.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh to oneself
to laugh up (also in) one's sleeve1560
smudge1808
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Smue, or Smudge, to laugh in one's sleeve, to laugh in a clandestine way. Loth[ian].
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 312 Ye needna smudge and laugh at me now.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xvii. 248 Arm-and-arm together, smoodging and laughing like daft.
1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 96 Weel may he smudge within his sleeve At our attempts his snares tae leave.
Derivatives
ˈsmudging n.1
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > laughing quietly or to oneself
smudging1789
1789 W. Maclay Jrnl. 11 May (1890) 30 He will..dimple his visage with the most silly kind of half smile which I can not well express in English. The Scotch-Irish have a word that hits it exactly—smudging.
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smudgev.5
/smʌdʒ/, U.S. /smədʒ/ rare.
transitive. To smouch, to caress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)]
freeOE
coy1340
daunsel1362
to fawn on, upon1477
daut?a1513
cherish1568
fona1586
minion1598
flatter1599
ingle1599
biscot1653
ningle1659
fond1676
smuggle1679
fondle1686
caress1697
nauntle1828
smudge1844
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xliv. 144 She smudged them and kissed them so very naturally.
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n.1a1774
n.21767
n.3a1871
adj.1596v.1c1430v.21599v.31589v.41789v.51844